Efter leadin a failed struggle o the Left Opposition against the policies an rise o Joseph Stalin in the 1920s an the increasin role o bureaucracy in the Soviet Union, Trotsky wis successively remuivit frae pouer, expelled frae the Communist Pairty, deportit frae the Soviet Union an assassinatit on Stalin's orders. An early advocate o Red Airmy intervention against European fascism,[2] Trotsky opposed Stalin's peace greements wi Adolf Hitler in the 1930s an aw.

Trotsky's hoose in Coyoacán wis preserved much as it wis on the day o the assassination an is the nou a museum run bi a board whilk includes his grandson Esteban Volkov. The current director o the museum is Carlos Ramirez Sandoval. Trotsky's grave is locatit in the gairden on the grunds. A new foundation (Internaitional Friends o the Leon Trotsky Museum) haes been organisit for tae raise siller tae further improve the Museum.

↑The murther weapon wis a hidden cut-doun ice axe, no an ice pick. Mony history an reference beuks hae ramfeeselt the twa. See Robert Conquest, The Great Terror: A Reassessment, Oxford University Press, 1991, ISBN 0-19-507132-8, p. 418 for a detailed account